Chapter 117 Family Bliss
Konstantin nodded gratifiedly: "Yes, listen to me, it won't do you any harm anyway, after how long you have experienced in the future, you will naturally agree with these words."
Konstantin never thought that his son didn't hold his fart well, and was going to meddle in other people's family affairs.
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Soon, the carriage stopped at the gate of the school district. Yes, this area is now called the school district.
This year, Ernst expanded the scale of the campus to receive orphans from Paraguay and Germany.
At the beginning, Ernst did not expect that there were so many orphans in Germany, and now the Hechingen School is a veritable orphanage.
The total number of orphans in Hexingen is close to 20,000, and they are all accepted by several schools built by the royal family of Hexingen.
It is important to know that there are only tens of thousands of residents in Heisingen, and now Hechingen has become the largest orphanage in Germany.
And with the increase of Paraguayan orphans, Ernst will set up a single school to teach these Paraguayan children German.
As for the Far Eastern orphans of the Hechingen Military Academy, they are actually older, and many of them are teenagers, mainly for the purpose of cultivating translation talents for the colonies.
Of course, there are also younger ones, but they don't go to the military academy, but ordinary German schools.
At present, Hexingen has four schools under construction and expansion, and ten buildings completed, all of which are teaching buildings and dormitories.
Among them, the Hechingen Military Academy is mainly for older orphans to study, and the other three schools are for younger orphans to study.
As a fast-track school, the Hechingen Military Academy was responsible for the functions of a secondary school. Many students were not particularly excellent in their studies and were sent directly to the East African colonies after graduation.
The previous sessions were fine. At that time, they were all older children aged 16 or 17. The children of this era seem to be more mature, so it is not awkward to put them in East Africa and society.
Nowadays, the age of students at Hechingen Military Academy is getting younger and younger, and many graduates are only fifteen or sixteen years old.
The younger you are, the easier it is to reform your mind, but the cost of training is also relatively high. You have to be at least fifteen or sixteen years old before you can graduate. In this way, some orphans are only five or six years old, and Ernst needs to raise them for at least ten years. Year.
As for the younger ones, Ernst arranged for some families in the East African colonies to adopt them, and the East African colonial government issued subsidies and supervised them.
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"Come on, little guy, say hello to grandpa, will grandpa give you the candy?"
"Hi, Grandpa!"
"Oh, how cute!" Konstantin cheerfully hugged a little doll, peeled off the candy wrapper, and handed it to the little doll's mouth.
The children around showed envious eyes, but there was a trace of worry hidden in their eyes, and some secretly swallowed their saliva. Constantine's heart softened instantly when he saw it.
"Children! As long as you all call grandpa, I will give you all these candies, okay?"
However, no one dared to step forward.
Konstantin knew that these children were afraid of strangers, so he pulled a little doll over and asked kindly, "Do you like candy? Kid."
The little doll nodded timidly.
"Okay." The little baby said in a childish voice, "Grandpa."
"Oh, how cute!" So the little milk boy also got the candy. Constantine said to the children around him: "Look, grandpa means what he says. As long as you call grandpa, grandpa will give you these candies."
"Grandpa, grandpa..." The children, who had already been attracted by candy, couldn't resist the temptation and spoke one after another.
Konstantin cheerfully offered candy to the children.
Here is the lower grade class of Hechingen School, and the class is full of five or six-year-old dolls.
"Ernst, don't stand around and be silly, come and give me a hand." Constantine said to Ernst.
"Obey, father!" Ernst gave a funny military salute, and then began to distribute candy to these children.
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Hechingen Military Academy.
"Hi principal!"
Hechingen Military Academy, as a military academy, the students must be quite old, about fifteen or sixteen years old.
Of course we can't treat these students like we did to the children just now.
"Well, hello, students! First of all! I wish you all a Merry Christmas. I didn't bring any expensive gifts today. I just prepared some candies, and the monitor! Please send it to everyone."
"Thank you, principal!" Everyone said, politeness is a compulsory course at the Hechingen Military Academy, and you should be grateful when you accept gifts from others.
"Yes." Ernst nodded in satisfaction, exited the classroom, and went to the next class.
In fact, Ernst is only one or two years older than these children, but with the blessing of his status, Ernst still looks very dignified.
At the beginning, Ernst taught the first batch of Hechingen students, and he was not even as old as some of them, but in terms of temperament, Ernst, who had two lifetimes of experience and had received aristocratic education, looked like he was in his 20s and 30s in his previous life. old man.
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After giving the gifts, it was already dark, and Constantine and Ernst were going back.
The carriage rolled on the stone road, and Constantine said to Ernst: "Look, these cute children remind me of you when you were a child. You were such a small one, jumping up and down every day, just like a little monkey. At that time I was still worried about being so frizzy, whether the royal family of Hexingen will be reduced to you in the future, but gradually you have become a young adult with a calm personality and bold thinking. Now it seems that my worries are unnecessary. "
"Father, don't worry, family interests come first. This is what I abide by all the time. The future of the royal family of Hechingen must be bright." Ernst said to Prince Constantine.
"I also know this, but you have to fight for yourselves. In the future, you and Karina will give me a few fat grandchildren. Only when the population is prosperous can the family inheritance be prosperous. This is what the Hexingen family came up with. Lesson, I hope that your generation will not follow the old path, no matter how prominent a family in Europe has no successor, it will disappear in history." Constantine warned solemnly.
"I also understand this truth, father, don't worry." Ernst replied seriously.
Seeing that Ernst didn't slack off, Constantine nodded in satisfaction, which Constantine sometimes finds it unbelievable.
Ernst's thinking is sometimes not like that of a young man at all, but is as old-fashioned and traditional as himself, but he was not like this when he was young! That is to say, people gradually become stable after middle age.
Ernst is different. Although he also communicates with friends and peers, he is always strict and self-disciplined, and has a strong sense of professionalism.
Of course, many people of the same age as Ernst mostly hang out in the military barracks, where they will naturally be controlled, but they will show their true colors in the society. When it comes to holidays, you can see drinking officers and young soldiers hanging out in the ballroom.
(end of this chapter)